LaCie Silverlining Pro - 6.4.9

The last 24 hours have been a nightmare.

I have been resisting for 2 years to move to OSX.
I finally decided to try it out, tinker a bit with it in order to familiarise myself with it. I don’t need to and don’t want to use it.

I installed a second ata internal drive in my g4 dual 450 and installed 10.3.2 on it, thinking that this would be a sure way to minimise any interference from it with my work machine

When I booted off my other internal drive, with OS9.2.2 which I normally use, Norton 6 filesaver told me I had problems on my 3 external firewire drives.
On the Symantec site they say that norton6 is ok on 9.2.2


So I assume the MAC10.3.2 install has done something to the directory on these external drives

I disabled filesaver and booted off the new 10.3.2 drive and ran disk utility and it repaired all the disks - or so I thought. A few days later one d2 drive started to have problems on start up - the system would ask me to "initialise or eject"

I would reboot a few times and it would eventually show up and work fine

then one morning after the machine had gone to sleep I woke it up and it warned me that some of the data on one of the d2 drives might have been lost.

I rebooted and from that point on none of the 3 d2 firewire400 drives have been able to mount - I get the same "initialise or eject" warning

I have never known an operating system to mess with external drives without asking.

OS10.3.2 is acting worse than a virus.

300 gig of work is now possibly down the toilet

If I boot up in os 9 or 10 I am told "cant recognise drive do you want to initialise or eject"

I have tried running disk utility in 10.3.2 a few times and got this message
"invalid file clump size"
it should be 1048576 instead of 524288

Repair attempted on 2 volumes (its just one drive with one partition)
1 hfs volume repaired
1 volume could not be repaired


Another Disk utility check that failed gave the following message:
catalog file entry not found for extent
volume check failed

ERROR: The underlying task reported failure on exit(-9972)


The same drive passed all the disk utility checks on Jan 15th but by Feb 11th I was getting the above warnings

I don’t know what or how things deteriorated?

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I have been onto LaCie as I had heard there were firmware issues with their drives and OSX

They said it didn’t apply to the firewire400 d2 drives and that it has nothing to do with Silverlining(which came with the drives and was used to format them). They advised against updating the firmware on the drives. They think that it was probably Norton’s fault and that some of the stuff the Filesaver does is just not good enough to fool OSX and that OSX tried to correct this.

They also said that I should not have had any drives connected while installing software.

I've been using macs since the apple II in the mid 80s and I have never known of any software to be so volatile or obnoxious as OS X deciding to changed drives without asking

I have been trying to repair the 3 drives:

Silverlining could see the drives but not mount them, I could see the names I had given them and how much data is on them and the free space. So I know the date is still there.

Norton could see them too but after what the lacie guy said I am reluctant to use it and if I do I think it should be osX version as it might understand better what OS 10 did?

disk first aid could see them but couldn’t repair the "wrapper system file" problem

disk utility in 10.3.2 wouldn’t give me the option to scan or repair the disks – options were just greyed out

I am really annoyed

Has this happened to anyone else out there?

I would have expected to hear on the grapevine about a known issue of this magnitude???

Any solutions?

The latest version of diskwarrior identified the wrapper system file problem and created its own version which allowed me to copy off some of the files. But with the other 2 drives for some reason DiskWarrior cant get past the rebuilding the wrapper stage

I have heard that Norton 8 is the only thing that can repair a wrapper - has anyone done this or failed?
Perhaps if it does then I can get DiskWarrior to recover the data onto a blank drive.

Is there any way to just delete the wrapper and have it automatically rebuilt?
As far as I know the wrapper is just some backwards compatibility feature?

The data on the drives is priceless and I have to recover it - I was in the process of backing it up and had done about 100gig in the last few weeks onto CD

I’m hoping to find someone who has had this problem and had fixed it – I cant risk experimentation on the data!

HELP!!!
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I bought a D2 160GB fw400. Disk mounts, but does not accept data. Disk Utility Apple freezes everytime I want to do low level format. So I looked for LaCie tools. What a ridiculous company! They claim to be Mac harted. But do not have an os-X tool.... To update the software you need os-9. I do not use os-9 for more than 1 year... This silverlining should NOT be in this section. This is os-9 stuff.
I hope I can return my LaCie for a Maxtor or other disk that will work. I heard a lot of complaints regaring disks (any brand) exceeding 120GB with os-X)...